The LG Twins in professional baseball failed to break their natural enemy relationship against the KIA Tigers.

LG had hoped to catch up with Kia Tigers in the face-to-face match, but suffered a crushing defeat in the third place. With a gap of seven games behind the leading Kia Tigers, LG cannot afford to win the regular season title.스포츠토토

At the match against Kia held at Jamsil Stadium on Wednesday, the team lost 0-4. Although the two teams were separated by four points, the team lost the game completely. LG had four hits and failed to score a single point. It had only one chance to score a point.

LG did not have a good chance in the bottom of the second inning. Oh Ji-hwan walked to get on base with one out, and Kim Hyun-soo hit a heavy hit. Center fielder Socrates fumbled the ball once, and first baseman Oh Ji-hwan stopped at second base and quickly advanced to third base. It was a chance to score first and third bases with one out.

Park Dong-won hit a foul home run slightly off the left pole. After that, he stuck out the bat to Nail’s sweeper, but the hit became a ground ball in front of the second baseman with no power. He lost the opportunity to take the first run as it was a double play leading to second base-1.

The starting pitcher had consecutive hits after one out in the third inning, putting him on the verge of losing the first and third bases, and gave up the first run on a squeeze bunt. In the fourth inning, he allowed two more runs after being hit by a triple by leadoff hitter Socrates and a double (one RBI) by Lee Woo-sung.

LG suffered a crushing defeat to KIA on Wednesday last week. Son, who allowed no runs until the fourth inning, allowed the team to come from behind 1-2 in the fifth inning, and was replaced with runners on the first and third bases with one out and one out, trailing 1-3. Jung Woo-young and Park Myung-geun threw consecutive pitches, but LG allowed nine runs in the sixth inning alone. Some LG fans left the ballpark midway through the top of the sixth inning.

LG suffered a 2-3 come-from-behind loss to KIA on Wednesday. Starting pitcher Choi Won-tae pitched seven scoreless innings, but Yoo Young-chan allowed three runs in the ninth inning, leading 2-0.

LG suffered three consecutive sweep losses from July 16 to 18. As a result, it lost three consecutive sweeps to KIA this season. It lost all three of its first three games in Gwangju from April 9 to April 11. It lost to KIA again from July 9 to July 11 at Jamsil Stadium. It met KIA again in a month ago at Jamsil Stadium, and suffered three consecutive sweeps at the final destination of its pursuit of No. 1.

LG’s performance against KIA this season (3 wins and 12 losses)

2-7 losses on April 9 / 4-5 losses on April 10 / 4-8 losses on April 11
7-6 wins on April 26 / 6-3 wins on April 27 / 7-10 losses on April 28
4-11 losses on June 18 / 7-5 wins on June 19 / 5-6 losses on June 20
4-11 on July 9 / 2-5 on July 10 / 2-4 on July 11
2-3 losses on August 16 / 4-14 losses on August 17 / 0-4 losses on August 18

LG has one more game to play against KIA in Gwangju. The worst performance for LG was that it lost 15 consecutive games against Doosan in 2018 but lost 1 to 15 when it won the final showdown of the season. Since then, it has recorded at least six wins or more in matches against nine teams every year.

If LG, who is unilaterally beaten by KIA in the regular season, meets KIA in the Korean Series, will it be able to break the natural enemy jinx.

Kia Tigers pitcher Nail Nail became the winning pitcher against LG Twins on Thursday last week with three hits, one walk and three strikeouts during six innings. Nail is a “killer pitcher” with three wins, no loss and an earned run average of 2.43 in five games against LG this season. LG has never had a chance to target Nail Nail.

While LG is not good at left-handed starters, left-hander Lauer, Kia’s new foreign pitcher, became a victim of its first win in the KBO. Lauer started the game against LG on Thursday and pitched 108 pitches through the fifth inning, becoming the winning pitcher by allowing one run.

For LG, which has many left-handed hitters, it is burdensome to have many left-handed pitchers in the KIA bullpen. Kwak Do-gyu, Lee Joon-young, Choi Ji-min, Kim Dae-yu and Kim Ki-hoon are not only in must-win groups, but also in long-men and chase groups.

It is worrisome that Yoo Young-chan, the closing pitcher of the LG Twins, is particularly weak in the match against KIA. Yoo has been sluggish in six games against KIA this season, with two losses and three saves with three blon saves and an earned run average of 8.10. While pitching six ⅔ innings, Yoo had 12 hits and a batting average of 40%. He also lost the game against KIA on July 10, allowing a tying run in the ninth inning with a 2-0 lead.

LG’s batters are unable to coolly target the KIA mound, and LG’s pitching staff is weak against KIA batters.